i cant take him[liam downey] seriously cuz his name reminds me of that downy bear from back when i was a kid -d loc

I don't deny there are bad things in the US right now, hell, 51% of the country to be exact. But god damnit, our country being fat is NOT a problem. I do't give a shit how fat people are. hell, fat kids are harder to kidnap, that means our country is safer.

That is absolutely untrue. We make none of Volkl's skis and vice versa, nor are there any plans right now to move production. We are too busy with our own production and Volkl currently has a high tech facility producing their skis in Germany. We aquired Volkl but as of yet there has been no interaction between companies in the range of technology or production.

It doesn't give any specifics really. It said 49 jobs were lost in the shift with more to follow, and that the shift was induced by competition from Austria, where ski factory workers work for 27% less than their german counter parts. They still produce 430,000 pair of skis in their German factory a year.

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"I'm glad that in our endless pursuit to be three years behind snowboarding, we've finally gotten around to their FAG phase." -Micah Abrams